From: Topi Miettinen <Topi.Miettinen@nic.fi>
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 20:30:00 +0300
Subject: Bug#74976: elvis-tiny: temporary file problems

Package: elvis-tiny
Version: 1.4-9
Severity: grave

Elvis-tiny (probably full elvis also) has serious problems with temporary
file use. Those files are created with a predictable pattern and O_EXCL
flag is not used when opening. This makes elvis users vulnerable to race
conditions and/or data lossage.

=======================================================================

Topi included a patch to fix these problems, but the patch itself
was broken in 2 ways:

1. Recovery of lost files didn't work anymore
2. :w to an existing file broke.

The patch below by Miquel van Smoorenburg, based on Topi's bugreport
and patch, should fix the bug without any side effects.


--- elvis-tiny-1.4/Makefile.mix.orig	2012-06-29 20:26:25.262635031 +0000
+++ elvis-tiny-1.4/Makefile.mix	2012-06-29 20:23:07.000000000 +0000
@@ -45,7 +45,8 @@
 BIN=	/usr/bin
 CFLAGS=	-O2 -DM_SYSV -DCRUNCH -DNO_MKEXRC -DNO_CURSORSHAPE -DNO_CHARATTR \
 	-DNO_SHOWMODE -DNO_MODELINE -DNO_OPTCOLS -DNO_DIGRAPH -DNO_ABBR \
-	-DNO_AT -DNO_SENTENCE -DNO_ERRLIST -fsigned-char $(EXTRA_CFLAGS)
+	-DNO_AT -DNO_SENTENCE -DNO_ERRLIST -DUSE_MKSTEMP -DUSE_SNPRINTF \
+	-fsigned-char $(EXTRA_CFLAGS)
 OF=	-o 
 RF=	-c
 DATE=	-DDATE=\'\"`date`\"\'
diff -ruN elvis-tiny-1.4.b4/cmd1.c elvis-tiny-1.4/cmd1.c
--- elvis-tiny-1.4.b4/cmd1.c	Tue Nov 28 11:50:09 2000
+++ elvis-tiny-1.4/cmd1.c	Tue Nov 28 11:53:23 2000
@@ -158,6 +158,8 @@
 	mark[*extra - 'a'] = tomark;
 }
 
+void cmd_write2(MARK frommark, MARK tomark, int fd);
+
 /*ARGSUSED*/
 void cmd_write(frommark, tomark, cmd, bang, extra)
 	MARK	frommark;
@@ -168,9 +170,6 @@
 {
 	int		fd;
 	int		append;	/* boolean: write in "append" mode? */
-	REG long	l;
-	REG char	*scan;
-	REG int		i;
 
 	/* if all lines are to be written, use tmpsave() */
 	if (frommark == MARK_FIRST && tomark == MARK_LAST)
@@ -221,6 +220,16 @@
 			return;
 		}
 	}
+	cmd_write2(frommark, tomark, fd);
+	close(fd);
+}
+
+void cmd_write2(MARK frommark, MARK tomark, int fd)
+{
+	REG long	l;
+	REG char	*scan;
+	REG int		i;
+
 	for (l = markline(frommark); l <= markline(tomark); l++)
 	{
 		/* get the next line */
@@ -231,7 +240,6 @@
 		/* print the line */
 		twrite(fd, scan, i);
 	}
-	close(fd);
 }	
 
 
diff -ruN elvis-tiny-1.4.b4/system.c elvis-tiny-1.4/system.c
--- elvis-tiny-1.4.b4/system.c	Tue Nov 28 11:50:09 2000
+++ elvis-tiny-1.4/system.c	Tue Nov 28 12:00:54 2000
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
 
 #include "config.h"
 #include "vi.h"
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
 #include <signal.h>
 extern char	**environ;
 
@@ -331,7 +333,7 @@
 {
 	int	scratch;	/* fd of the scratch file */
 	int	fd;		/* fd of the pipe from the filter */
-	char	scrout[50];	/* name of the scratch out file */
+	char	*scrout = NULL;	/* name of the scratch out file */
 	MARK	new;		/* place where new text should go */
 	int	i;
 
@@ -339,6 +341,9 @@
 	if (to)
 	{
 		/* we have lines */
+		scrout = malloc(strlen(o_directory) + 9 + 1); /* strlen("/soXXXXXX") */
+		if (!scrout)
+			return -1;
 #if MSDOS || TOS
 		strcpy(scrout, o_directory);
 		if ((i=strlen(scrout)) && strchr("\\/:", scrout[i-1]))
@@ -347,6 +352,7 @@
 #else
 		sprintf(scrout, SCRATCHOUT, o_directory);
 #endif
+#if !USE_MKSTEMP
 		mktemp(scrout);
 		cmd_write(from, to, CMD_BANG, 0, scrout);
 
@@ -357,6 +363,13 @@
 			unlink(scrout);
 			return -1;
 		}
+#else
+		if ((scratch = mkstemp(scrout)) < 0)
+			return -1;
+		/* use those lines as stdin */
+		cmd_write2(from, to, scratch);
+		lseek(scratch, 0L, SEEK_SET);
+#endif
 	}
 	else
 	{
@@ -371,6 +384,7 @@
 		{
 			close(scratch);
 			unlink(scrout);
+			free(scrout);
 		}
 		return -1;
 	}
@@ -429,6 +443,7 @@
 	{
 		close(scratch);
 		unlink(scrout);
+		free(scrout);
 	}
 	return 0;
 }
diff -ruN elvis-tiny-1.4.b4/tmp.c elvis-tiny-1.4/tmp.c
--- elvis-tiny-1.4.b4/tmp.c	Tue Nov 28 11:50:09 2000
+++ elvis-tiny-1.4/tmp.c	Tue Nov 28 13:02:18 2000
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #  include <sys/stat.h>
 # endif
 #endif
+#include <malloc.h>
 
 
 #ifndef NO_MODELINE
@@ -193,7 +194,12 @@
 		tmpname[i++]=SLASH;
 	sprintf(tmpname+i, TMPNAME+3, sum, statb.st_ino, statb.st_dev);
 #else
+#  if USE_SNPRINTF
+	snprintf(tmpname, sizeof(tmpname), TMPNAME,
+		o_directory, sum, statb.st_ino, statb.st_dev);
+#  else
 	sprintf(tmpname, TMPNAME, o_directory, sum, statb.st_ino, statb.st_dev);
+#  endif
 #endif
 
 	/* make sure nobody else is editing the same file */
@@ -209,11 +215,28 @@
 
 	/* create the temp file */
 #if ANY_UNIX
-	close(creat(tmpname, 0600));		/* only we can read it */
+#  if USE_MKSTEMP
+	scan = malloc(strlen(o_directory) + 10 + 1); /* "/elvXXXXXX" */
+	if (scan == NULL) {
+		FAIL("No memory: %s", strerror(errno));
+	}
+	sprintf(scan, "%s/elvXXXXXX", o_directory);
+	if ((tmpfd = mkstemp(scan)) >= 0) {
+		if (link(scan, tmpname) < 0) {
+			close(tmpfd);
+			tmpfd = -1;
+		}
+		unlink(scan);
+	}
+	free(scan);
+#  else
+	tmpfd = open(tmpname, O_CREAT|O_WRONLY|O_TRUNC|O_EXCL, 0600);
+						/* only we can read it */
+#  endif
 #else
 	close(creat(tmpname, FILEPERMS));	/* anybody body can read it, alas */
-#endif
 	tmpfd = open(tmpname, O_RDWR | O_BINARY);
+#endif
 	if (tmpfd < 0)
 	{
 		FAIL("Can't create temporary file, errno=%d", errno);